Showing 111 - 120 of 62,418
This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out-migration decisions on their earning profiles using a correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434501
these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675513
shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … suffers more from further immigration in Germany than in the UK. -- immigration ; unemployment ; wages ; labor markets ; panel …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568638
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139049
I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the United States. In particular, I focus on the annual earnings and skills composition associated with immigrants' chosen occupations. Following Bleakley and Chin (2004; 2010), I use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072219
state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951556
This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of … federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911181
The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820735
This paper theoretically investigates how an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can raise wages, generating … new insights on potential drivers for the observed non-negative wage effects of immigration. We develop a model of a labor … supply reduces a firm's credibility. By this effect, a higher labor supply - for example caused by immigration - can increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515145
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration - is fundamentally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321433